# Report 2020-12

## News

 - [My Phone Was Spying on Me, so I Tracked Down the Surveillants](https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/)
 - [Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital](https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-intercepting-https-traffic-in-its-capital/)
 - [Huawei worked on facial recognition system to surveil Uighurs, new report claims](https://ipvm.com/reports/huawei-megvii-uygur.html)  
 - [French watchdog fines Google and Amazon over their policies on cookies Access to the comments](https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/10/french-watchdog-fines-google-and-amazon-over-their-policies-on-cookies)  
 - [Surveillance companies are using mobile ads to obtain scarily accurate location data](https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/12/11/surveillance-companies-are-using-mobile-ads-to-obtain-scarily-accurate-location-data/)
 - [Nigeria Orders Mobile Users To Link Phones To National ID Numbers](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/nigeria-orders-mobile-subscribers-to-link-phones-to-id-numbers)
 - [Samsung just updated one of its phone apps to serve you even more ads](https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/12/18/samsung-just-updated-one-of-its-phone-apps-to-serve-you-even-more-ads/)
 - [Menstruation apps store excessive information, privacy charity says](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/21/menstruation-apps-store-excessive-information-privacy-charity-says)
 - [BMW Will Publicly Shame Out-of-Warranty Drivers with Smart Billboards and License Plate Readers](https://www.thedrive.com/news/38406/bmw-will-publicly-shame-out-of-warranty-drivers-with-smart-billboards-and-license-plate-readers)

## Data Breaches

 - [French pharmaceuticals distribution platform Apodis Pharma leaking 1.7+ TB of confidential data](https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/111756/data-breach/apodis-pharma-data-leak.html)
 - [Data of 243 million Brazilians exposed online via website source code](https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-of-243-million-brazilians-exposed-online-via-website-source-code/)
 - [Physical addresses of 270K Ledger owners leaked on hacker forum](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/physical-addresses-of-270k-ledger-owners-leaked-on-hacker-forum/)
 - [Data breach hits 30,000 signed up to workplace pensions provider](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/23/data-breach-hits-30000-signed-up-to-workplace-pensions-provider)
 - [Online Fashion App Exposes Financial Records of Top European Influencers](https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-21-buttons-breach/)
 - [T-Mobile data breach exposed phone numbers, call records](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/t-mobile-data-breach-exposed-phone-numbers-call-records/)

## Paper/Report

 - [Running in Circles Uncovering the Clients of Cyberespionage Firm Circles](https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/running-in-circles-uncovering-the-clients-of-cyberespionage-firm-circles/)
